"I am not glad that such a sore of time
Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt."—King John, Act V. Sc 2.
"The murmuring surge
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes."—Lear, Act IV. Sc. 6.
"O, undistinguished space of woman's will."—Ib.
I could give instances from Spenser and even from Pope, but shall only observe that when we say "an undoubted fact" we mean an indubitable one.
Thos. Keightley.
P.S.—I am not disposed to quarrel with H. C. K.'s derivation of awkward (Vol. viii., p. 310.), but I must observe that the more exact correlative of toward seems to be wayward. The Anglo-Saxons appear to have pronounced their ȝ as g; but after the Conquest it was pronounced hard in some cases, and so wayward and awkward may have the same origin.
Shakspeare Portrait.—Can any of your correspondents state whether the sign of Shakspeare, said to have been painted at a cost of 150l., and which in 1764 graced a tavern then in Drury Lane, called "The Shakspeare," and in that year was taken down and removed into the country, and used for a similar purpose, still exists, add where? and is the artist who painted such known?
Charlecott.